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Fourteen Big Data Predictions for 2024

Never before have the challenges of big data--how we store it, manage it, govern it, and use it--been so pressing. Advances in artificial intelligence may be the driving force in 2024, but that doesn’t mean a thing if Read more…

Generative AI Needs Vigilant Data Cataloging and Governance

Our industry’s breathless hype about generative AI tends to overlook the stubborn challenge of data governance. In reality, many GenAI initiatives will fail unless companies properly govern the text files that feed the Read more…

Is Your Data Management Strategy Ready for AI? 5 Ways to Tell

Next-generation AI technology is to enterprises what smartphones are to teenagers: Something almost everyone wants, but not everyone is ready to use properly. To the typical teenager (or tweenager), smartphones are a Read more…

Data Access Governance & Security Leader ALTR Closes $25M Series C Funding

Businesses of all sizes are striving to maximize data access and security, however, it might not be enough. An Increasing volume and complexity of data has made it more challenging for businesses to keep their data secur Read more…

Cloudera Makes a Move in GenAI with Pinecone Partnership

Cloudera customers have been working with large language models (LLMs) and building generative AI applications for some time. Today, the cloud data management vendor unveiled a partnership with vector database leader Pin Read more…

Alation Turns to GenAI to Automate Data Governance Tasks

Alation is rolling out a new offering dubbed ALLIE AI that’s aimed at helping data stewards better organize data when it’s being ingested into the company, as well as to streamline and simplify how customers ultimate Read more…

Immuta Expands Hooks Into Starburst for Better Data Mesh Governance

Starburst and Trino users will have an easier time hammering their distributed data governance policies into place thank to a deeper set of data mesh integrations between the open data analytics engines and Immuta, the d Read more…

How Amplitude Uses GenAI to Improve Data Quality

Data quality is a critical must-have for big data analytics and AI. If you have it, you can do amazing things with your data. But if you don’t, you’re kind of dead in the water. Behavioral analytics platform provider Read more…

Data Catalogs: Extreme Makeover Edition

Here’s the cold, hard truth: data catalogs don’t get most people excited. In fact, it’s kind of like going to the dentist; almost nobody likes doing it, but the alternative is worse. In other words, while most peop Read more…

Three Critical Factors to Consider When Preparing Data for Generative AI

Thanks in part to the excitement around breakthrough generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, industry analysts are projecting rapid growth of business investment in AI and machine learning (ML) techno Read more…

Databricks Strings a Data Mesh with Lakehouse Federation

Databricks this week unveiled Lakehouse Federation, a set of new capabilities in its Unity Catalog that will enable its Delta Lake customers to access, govern, and process data residing outside of its lakehouse. The comp Read more…

Acryl Data Raises $21M in Bid to Unify Data Stack

Acryl Data, the company driving the open source data catalog called the DataHub Project, got a boost in its quest to unify the fragmented data stack today when it announced the completion of a $21 million Series A round. Read more…

Snowflake Debuts New Government and Education Data Cloud

Snowflake has unveiled its latest industry-specific offering---the Government and Education Data Cloud. The company says its Government and Education Data Cloud is aimed at empowering educational institutions and publ Read more…

Classifier Tuning is BigID’s Solution to Boost Data Classification Accuracy

BigID has made it easier to adjust classification machine learning models in real time, thanks to a new feature of its data intelligence platform called classifier tuning. Classifier tuning will allow users to manuall Read more…

Confluent’s New Cloud Capabilities Address Data Streaming Hurdles

Confluent has announced several new Confluent Cloud capabilities and features that address the data governance, security, and optimization needs of data streaming in the cloud. “Real-time data is the lifeblood of ev Read more…

Databricks Enhances Lakehouse Governance with Okera Acquisition and Immuta Investment

Databricks is bolstering the data governance capabilities of its lakehouse platform with a new acquisition and investment. The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the data governance firm Okera for Read more…

We’re Still in the ‘Wild West’ When it Comes to Data Governance, StreamSets Says

The passage of data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA was supposed to rein in the excesses of the big data boom days and usher us toward a new era of data civility. It hasn’t quite worked out that way, according to data Read more…

Data Products: The Solution to the Data Silo Trap

Data can be somewhat of a double-edged sword for modern enterprises. On one hand, it is critical to the decision-making process. Typically speaking, the quality of decisions improves as the amount of pertinent data analy Read more…

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